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Andreas Gryphius
Critical study of great 17c German poet and dramatist.
Andreas Gryphius: Rooted in Darkness. The Paradoxes of Faith and The Phoenix Vision
Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, Saint Mary's University, language: English, abstract: An essay with translations and an evaluative commentary on Andreas Gryphius (Andreas Greif) offering an English perspective on Gryphius as the major Baroque poet of the Thirty Years War in Europe emphasizing common Anglo- German traditions in the Netherlands of that period and proposing Greif's religious poetry as a touchstone for the age.
Two Gryphius Tragedies in English Translation
How do the first tragic plays of Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664) shed light on today's political unrest and religious controversies in the Middle East and the Caucasus? Frequent updates remind us that revolt, imprisonment, torture, execution, and beheading still transpire in these regions. Such reports unveil remarkable parallels to the shocking and detailed accounts offered by Gryphius in his first two tragedies. The neighboring powers of Iran, Russia, and Turkey continue to exert influence on nearby minor states. Regional conflict among religions and between forces vying for political power remains the same today as during the lifetime of Gryphius. Such discord also triggered the earlier hist...
Andreas Gryphius: Poet Between Epochs
It is the purpose of the present study to point out principles at work in Gryphius' poetry that allow the reader to think in terms of two basic main themes: that of Gryphius as a meditative poet involved with the arrangement of sequences of sonnets, and that of Gryphius as a poet attempting to work by analogy. The conclusion suggests that this poet may be seen as a transitional figure who holds in quasi-equipoise those forces of change that within a few years bring about the transformation from the medieval and Renaissance modes of thinking into that of the modern world.
Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664): A Modern Voice
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: This is a general paper. It is a project proposed based on a shared perception of Gryphius' topical importance for readers in English, also with respect to a broader vision of Metaphysical/Baroque poetry in Europe in the 17th century.
Reading Andreas Gryphius
This book traces the widely varying critical reception of Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664), the greatest German poet of the seventeenth century. This book traces the widely varying critical reception of Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664), the greatest German poet of the seventeenth century. Although his work was respected in his native Silesia both in his lifetime, and in the years after his death, his reputation was almost eclipsed during the later eighteenth century. However, new interpretations of him by Romantic authors, and an emerging ideological consensus about Germany's national literature, brought about Gryphius' critical rehabilitation and enhanced appreciation of the qualities of his work; ...
